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2,442 metres (8,012 ft) Asphalt. Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella (IATA: NSY, ICAO: LICZ) is an Italian Air Force base (Italian: Aeroporto "Cosimo Di Palma" di Sigonella), and a U.S. Navy installation at Italian Air Force Base Sigonella in Lentini, Sicily, Italy. The whole NAS is a tenant of the Italian Air Force, which has the military and ...
Aviano Air Base was established by the Italian government in 1911 as the first airport in Italy, and was later used as training base for Italian pilots and construction facility for aircraft parts. During World War I, Italy used the airfield in missions against the Austro-Hungarian and German armies. At that time, two Italian aviators, Captain ...
This is a category of airfields used by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II located in Italy. These were used primarily as tactical airfields by Twelfth Air Force during the Italian Campaign, and as strategic bombing airfields by Fifteenth Air Force, attacking enemy industrial and economic targets in the Balkans; Eastern Europe; Austria and Germany.
The Foggia Airfield Complex was a series of World War II military airfields located within a 40 km (25 mi) radius of Foggia, in the Province of Foggia, Italy.The airfields were used by the United States Army Air Forces' Fifteenth Air Force as part of the strategic bombardment campaign against Nazi Germany in 1944 and 1945, as well as the Twelfth Air Force, the British Royal Air Force and the ...
Caserma Ederle, near Vicenza (northern Italy, in the Veneto region — HQ of the United States Army Africa and of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade) Darby Military Community, formerly Camp Darby, located in the province of Pisa, halfway between Pisa and Livorno. A 1951 US-Italian agreement conceded to the Pentagon the transformation of thousands of ...
B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 2d Bombardment Group on a mission from Amendola Airfield, Italy, 1944. United States Army Air Forces formations and units in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) were the second-largest user of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II. There were a total of six combat groups (twenty-four ...
San Vito AS. Coordinates. 40°38′46″N 017°50′25″E / 40.64611°N 17.84028°E / 40.64611; 17.84028 (San Vito AS) San Vito dei Normanni Air Station was a United States Air Force facility located 7 miles (11 km) west of Brindisi, Apulia, between the port of Brindisi and the town of San Vito dei Normanni, Italy.
Decimomannu Air Base (IATA: DCI, ICAO: LIED) is an Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) air base located approximately 5 km (2.7 NM) north of Decimomannu a comune in the Province of Cagliari on the island of Sardinia in Italy. It is a military airport located northwest of the city of Cagliari, Sardinia, in a vast area between the towns of ...